Quotes About Wisdom

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

The idea comes before the logical argument.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.